Pause and schedule automated workflows with the new “Wait until” step in Workspace Studio

To give teams greater control over the timing and pacing of their automated workflows, we are introducing a new “Wait until” step in Google Workspace Studio flows. With this new flow control step, users can pause a flow at any point in its execution—including inside conditional branches (Check if) and loops (Repeat for each)—and automatically resume it at a specified future date and time or after a set duration (up to 14 days). 

Previously, multi-stage workflows that required time delays—such as sending a follow-up email a few days after a customer meeting, spacing out onboarding reminders, or waiting until Monday morning to post a team digest in Google Chat—had to be split across separate scheduled flows. The Wait until step lets you build and manage these end-to-end sequences within a single flow without writing code.

When adding a Wait until step to a flow, you can configure how long the flow should pause with several modes:

• Specific day next week: Continue next Monday at 8AM—ideal for deferring non-urgent notifications or weekly follow-ups until the start of the next workweek.
• Specific day and time: Wait 3 days before following-up at 5PM—making it easy to schedule multi-day email sequences, task reminders, and deadline check-ins.
• After a set duration: Pause the flow for 30 minutes—or any combo of hours, minutes, and seconds (up to 14 days total) before automatically continuing to the next step.

While a flow is paused, you can monitor its real-time progress in the Workspace Studio Activity tab, which logs the scheduled resume timestamp and time zone (for example, “Waiting until {datetime}” and “Flow resumed on {datetime}”).

Getting started

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
• End users: Try the feature in Google Workspace Studio. Visit the Help Center to learn more about this step. 

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 9, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Workspace Studio
• Workspace Studio Help: Get Started with Workspace Studio
• YouTube: Workspace Studio Playlist
• Discord: Workspace Studio Channel